California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.